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Rh "History, and books such as lawyers use" are his favorite reading. He determined to be a lawyer, he says, at fourteen. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

The text of the Teller Resolution on the Cuban question over which so much debate arose in the senate and on which various senators have expressed their opinions as to its effect in securing the independence of Cuba and preventing foreign complications, is as follows: "That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people."

In June, 1862, Mr. Teller was married to Harriet M. Bruce, daughter of Packerd and Dolly Bruce, of Cuba, New York. They have three children living in 1906. His address is Denver, Colorado.